Are there best practices for handling special characters or formatting discrepancies when extracting text from PDFs using PHP?

When extracting text from PDFs using PHP, special characters or formatting discrepancies may arise due to the way text is encoded or formatted in the PDF file. To handle this, you can use libraries like `TCPDF` or `FPDF` which provide methods for extracting text with proper encoding and formatting. 

// Example using TCPDF library to extract text from a PDF file
require_once('tcpdf.php');

$pdf = new TCPDF();
$pdf->setSourceFile('example.pdf');
$page = $pdf->importPage(1);
$text = $pdf->getTextFromPage($page);
echo $text;

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PDF text extraction special characters formatting discrepancies

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